"Phil Carmody" <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:87624opy3k.fsf@bazspaz.fatphil.org...> "Existential Angst" <fitcat@optonline.net> writes:>> "Ben Bacarisse" <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> wrote in message>> news:0.e12037e9d116e6e9081a.20121127131802GMT.878v9nw5f9.fsf@bsb.me.uk...>> > Clark Smith <noaddress@nowhere.net> writes:>> >>> >> On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 15:08:17 -0500, Existential Angst wrote:>> >>>> >>> Would be the digits of e, pi, et al?>> >>> If that's the case, no need for fancy pyooter algorithms?>> >>>>> >>> Inneresting article on pi, randomness, chaos.>> >>> http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/pi-random.html>> >>>> >> Is it not the case that the digits of e, pi et al. can't strictly>> >> be random, if it is only because they are highly compressible? I.e.>> >> because there small, compact formulas that spit out as many digits as >> >> you>> >> want in a completely deterministic way?>> >>> > Absolutely.>>>> Well, as I responded above, Bailey/Crandall would most certainly >> disagree.>> Nope, you certainly are too mathematically naive to understand what> Bailey et al. have said. For example, at the URL above, the word> "random" is in quotes, implying not actually random in every sense,> and then later it explicitly says "in a certain statistical sense".> That's all, in one sense, not in every sense.>> Are you a new troll, or an old troll that's just morphed?

Neither.And yeah, I'm "mathematically naive", which is why I posted the Q.You, however, are an elitist asshole, who I'm sure was just steps away from solving FLT, right?-- EA

>> Phil> -- > Regarding TSA regulations:> How are four small bottles of liquid different from one large bottle?> Because four bottles can hold the components of a binary liquid explosive,> whereas one big bottle can't. -- camperdave responding to MacAndrew on /.